[at-l] OT War & Hazardous Duty Pay - WAAY off topic

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

I am a Vietnam era vet and generally agree with you that for grades below
major the Silver Star is not lightly given. Higher grades were given Silver
Stars for flying over a battle in a chopper however. But given the nature of
the swiftboat warfare it was possible for Kerry to intentionally submit a
false description of the action. His superior officers were no where around
the site of the battle. Read what people are saying who were there when this
happened. 
 
Kerry went to Nam with a definite plan to punch certain political tickets
for his future campaigns. I mean be honest, three purple hearts, a bronze
star and a silver star in four months with not one minute in the hospital is
just unbelievable. Followed by a demand that he be removed from the battle
zone as soon as he gets the third scratch. No other swift boat vet ever
served less time in Nam than Kerry. 
 
Who brings a super eight camera to a combat zone and makes his men reenact
battles a couple of days later? Who tells people that he is going to be the
next JFK? It was all a cynical plan on his part.
 
Bryan

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Subject: RE: [at-l] OT War & Hazardous Duty Pay - WAAY off topic



John Kerry as acknowledging that 
> he killed a single, wounded, fleeing Viet Cong soldier whom he was afraid 
> would turn around." 
> 
###You are applying comfortable armchair standards to a situation you have
obviously never been in.  You don't buy silver stars.  Purple hearts were a
dime a dozen in Nam.  Most people technically earned at least one.  The
Silver Star is most often awarded posthumously.  If kerry got one he earned
it.  Back off this line of rhetoric. You know not of what you speak.  You
are beginning to give Republicans a bad name.

 

Clyde